#what do you mean ‘have I done any allyship work toward fat people or trans people or people of color or anyone else she’s bigoted against’?

[avese23]

I feel like it says something that a famous 19 year old being extremely shitty on the internet is trending more than anything about politicians or effective protests or the actual acts of genocide.

Like yes, people feel betrayed that their parasocial bond with someone not trusted with alchohol or public office has been broken. And yes tumblr would rather focus on fandom than politics and the fact that stranger things is trending but Palestine is not is perhaps evidence of tumblrs (alleged) suppression of what’s actually being posted.

But it still feels gross to see. Telling a Jewish kid to kill himself helps literally no one, and no one cares that this scandal upholds your pre existing dislike of a show and now you feel superior. Yes his actions should upset you, so let yourself feel that anger and disappointment, boycott his stuff, express he’s in the wrong. But then focus on the more dire problems at hand.

In general can we, *for once* make brown people’s suffering about something besides whether you favorite white celebrity is ok with it?

#can you tell I need to eat before work and am procrastinating #this isn’t anything heated toward the people talking about it rn #I just woke up from a nap and am annoyed #obviously very very different scale but it’s a similar attitude I’ve seen people take toward Harry Potter after 2020 #“guys I never liked the books and felt like out when it was popular and now that jkr spiraled into a transphobic mess of a presence I feel #a moral high ground that i never interacted with this person *clearly* because i was psychic and knew the series had problems all along. #what do you mean ‘have I done any allyship work toward fat people or trans people or people of color or anyone else she’s bigoted against’? #anyway this makes me a good person” #it’s such an irritating mindset that helps no one and is just dickish #anywho #reminder to not shit on anyone else involved in the show for something one actor said #and DEFINITELY not an excuse to think all Jewish people share the opinion of one dumb kid who’s let himself be brainwashed by colonialism